Robert Wyatt Quotes

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• If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get…
• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming…
• In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since…
• The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
• I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside…
• I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
• I don't do live things.
• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
• On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
• I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would…
• I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a…
• Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
• I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of…
• I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

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